American Apparels aim was to create clothes that didn't harm or exploit those who made them.
At the end of last week, after a highly-publicised bankruptcy, the news came that American Apparel had been sold to Gildan which is a Canadian company who most likely produced many of the garments coming from some of your favourite band logos or streetwear graphics are printed on. This means that all 110 US American Apparel stores will close. The factory will also close which has 3500 employed meaning that they will now lose their jobs.
i have always admired American Apparel for its values and the clothes produced by the brand, Though it was always out of my price range. The brand was definitely symbolic of a wider issue. They wanted you to spend more on clothes made fairly with fair paid workers (sweatshop free) that spend less on underpaid worker in terrible conditions. It was one of the main clothing manufactorers in North America with the highest paid workers.
Sadly, the high amount of competitors whom aren't sweatshop free and sell clothes at a much lower price came out better.
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